WXnation Wire: Weather Blog, WX & Space News
                               SINCE FEB. 2003
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Weather News: Severe storms are possible today from the Southeast and Carolinas up to Washington D.C. … Resources: National Weather Service watches/warnings map | Regional radar from Wunderground | Intellicast storm radar summary | Weather and live webcams city list | Current Storm Prediction Center text, images and watches are in the lower left column of this page

April snow, rain, fog bring crashes to Colorado

Video Report: Weather experts monitor flood dangers throughout Utah

Extreme weather linked to weight gain

Professor: Biblical event explains weather as we know it

Space News: Direct image of extrasolar planet is first, team says

Photo in the News: Dust storm bedevils Iraq

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Friday: 1. Little Rock 2. Vancouver 3. Nashville 4. Memphis 5. Denver … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Weather News: Snow keeps falling in Montana, Wyoming: Up to 2 feet of snow buries parts of Wyoming and Montana Thursday … Wyoming Snow closes interstate, leads to bird deaths, brings welcome moisture

From L.A.: Spring rain puts L.A. within an inch of 115-year-old record | Orange County: Heavy rain, wind create ‘downburst’ over Dana Point

From San Diego: Storm front brings rain, wind warnings

From Sacramento: April snow showers mean May flowers still in deep freeze

Northern Utah flooding could be precursor of things to come

N. Texas residents still paying for most expensive hailstorm ever: Softball-sized hail hit Mayfest in Fort Worth 10 years ago Slideshow hailstorm (opens in new window): Most expensive hail storm in history — $1 billion worth of damage…

Bay Area scientists inch closer to foretelling earthquakes

USGS research sheds light on why March tsunami smaller than December’s

Space News: Top NASA officials debate May liftoff

Experts: New data show global warming

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Thursday: 1. Columbus 2. Los Angeles 3. New York City 4. Denver 5. Tampa … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

WXnation Podcast, Edition 2 [mp3 recorded April 28, 2005 — 8 min. 59 sec./4.3 MB] … Inside: National Weather Service bill controversy; Tornado radar; Crazy spring snow; WXnation feature on NBC NewsChannel; Meteor shower or something else; Bob Schneider this Saturday; WXnation Hotel Locator …

WXnation Report On NBC NewsChannel: And, thanks to tech reporter and blogger Mike Wendland for the NBC NewsChannel story about this Web site. He did an excellent job of explaining what’s available here, and some of NBC’s family of stations have responded by adding us to their online “Newslinks” sections, including WFLA-TV 8, Tampa, FL; WCMH-TV 4, Columbus, OH; WSMV-TV 4,
Nashville, TN; and WJFW-TV 12, Northern Wisconsin

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Wednesday: 1. Tampa 2. New York City 3. Los Angeles 4. Orlando 5. Boston … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

New Radar In Okla. May Improve Tornado Forecasting: New radar aims to improve 75 percent false-alarm rate on tornadoes | More info from The Chickasha Express-Star … Oklahoma City’s KFOR-TV was the first in the U.S. to purchase a million-watt radar, four times more powerful than many.

Room For Everyone?: That proposed National Weather Service bill story has made it onto USAToday.com: Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) is pushing a bill that some say would restrict information on the National Weather Service’s Web site. As I stated earlier in this blog, I turn to the NWS first when severe weather is headed my way, and it would be a shame if, one day, NWS radar images and 7-day forecast pages were gone. It doesn’t keep me from regularly visiting the other sites: During severe weather, NWS Java loops of radar images take longer and longer to load. Even when all is loading well, I frequently visit my local NBC affiliate KXAS-TV, Wunderground, Intellicast, AccuWeather and, yes, Weather.com. Each have unique displays, such as the Wunderground Storm Tracks or Intellicast Radar Summary, which show large cells’ heights and projected movements (both of these are included in the city pages of this Web site). I believe that there’s room for everyone (including this site :) What do you think?

Other Weather News: ‘Endless winter’ continues in Montana

Sierra Earthquake Risk: California and Nevada share more than just a border. They share faults. A map unveiled by the Department of Conservation’s California Geological Survey Tuesday shows earthquake shaking potential in the Reno-Tahoe area. Full story … As always, a list of current earthquakes is in the left column of this page.

Weird News: Exploding toads puzzle German scientists

Space News:Aurora Watch for Canada, Alaska posted at SpaceWeather.com … Also, April 24th Lunar Eclipse Gallery and rainbows in the night

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Tuesday: 1. Atlanta 2. Orlando 3. Panama City 4. Springfield, MO 5. Tampa … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Weather News: Storm continues to rage over online data from National Weather Service

Late-season snow was no problem for most plants in Flint, Michigan

Alaska bracing for breakup

Site Announcements: And finally, you may have noticed the links to the WXnation.com Hotel Locator, which launched on Monday. The site includes detailed listings, photos, and online reservations for more than 26,000 hotels and motels across the United States and Canada. The site’s logo features a picture of a hotel I stayed in earlier this month (off I-44 in Terre Haute, Ind.), and the small plane in the logo is from a picture I took of an American Airlines jet flying over Fort Worth, the home of AA. I hope you find this new feature useful!

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Monday: 1. Dallas/Fort Worth 2. Austin 3. Houston 4. Detroit 5. Cleveland … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Tornado warnings issued in Dallas/Fort Worth area: Coverage from NBC 5/KXAS-TV … DFW weather and live webcams

Spring snow surprises Midwest … Ohio resident: “Even people who normally don’t complain about [a long winter] are at the end of their wits.”

Michigan suffers through second day of late snow storm: By 8 p.m. Sunday, the northern Thumb region had received a foot of snow and 10 to 13 inches had fallen in Detroit’s northern suburbs, said meteorologist Greg Smith of the National Weather Service. Detroit’s high on Sunday: 35

Latest from WDIV-TV, Detroit

It was interesting to see one of my hometowns, Port Huron, Mich., featured in a couple of reports on The Weather Channel, Sunday, as they saw 8 or 9 inches of snow. Mom and dad, hang in there, it will be hot and humid before you know it!

From Cleveland, where an eastern suburb reported 14 inches of snow: Heavy snow knocks out power to thousands

Latest Cleveland news from WEWS-TV/NewsNet 5

Wicked weather blankets TN-VA Tri-Cities with snow

From North Carolina: Chaotic weather in early spring

Current snow depth map

Now, on to what’s supposed to be falling this time of year: Wet weekend may inch L.A. near record

Storm reports rise in populated areas

Severe weather is possible in Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth, Oklahoma City and Tulsa today. Current NWS watches/warnings map

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Sunday: 1. Detroit 2. Cleveland 3. Dallas/Fort Worth 4. New York City 5. Los Angeles … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Sky Show Scare: Meteor shower sparks flurry of phone calls to police across New England … April 2005 Aurora Gallery from SpaceWeather.com

Posted this afternoon:

Winter Blast In Spring: It’s almost May, and parts of southeast Michigan may see up to 11 inches of snow. WDIV-TV’s Detroit Skyline Webcam snap from Sunday afternoon pictured right (Courtesy ClickOnDetroit.com). (Links to large version in a new window)

For Cleveland, more than 6 inches of snow. Some webcams of note in Detroit: Earthcam, Detroit skyline (not very visible today) and traffic cams, and Cleveland Earthcam … Latest radar image and Watches/warnings map for SE Michigan and N. Ohio

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Saturday: 1. Detroit 2. Los Angeles 3. Louisville 4. New York City 5. Washington, D.C. … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Late-Season Snow: From Detroit: Late-season snowstorm could drop 3 to 8 inches of snow in Detroit, SE Michigan | Snow accumulations depend on ground temperature … This from my alma mater, Oakland University: Late snow, oh no! … Resources: Regional radar | Latest NWS forecast | Weather and webcams for Detroit-area; Western MI; Northern MI and N. Central MI

From Cleveland: 6 to 12 inches of snow possible in Northeast Ohio | From Toledo: Rare April snow showers may put freeze on impatient May flowers | From Cincinnati: Weekend Shock: Snow showers, wind chill in 20s … Resources: Regional radar | Latest NWS forecast | Weather and webcams for Cleveland-area; Cincinnati; Columbus and Dayton

Even complaints in Canada: SNOW SNOW GO AWAY! | Flooding possible as heavy rain forecast

Drive-In Opening! (Re-opening, that is)

NASCAR’s in Az.; Watch for rain

CapitalWeather.com has some links to the NWS bill, and says source: bill was “dead on arrival,” will not gain traction

From SpaceWeather.com: Lunar eclipse Sunday

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Friday: 1. Indianapolis 2. Atlanta 3. Louisville 4. Knoxville 5. Los Angeles … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.